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you could show that your absence was on business of

very grave iht construe in

that you had not really violated the will"

Larry looked at the ceiling and blew rings of suidly I had not disclosed to either of them the

cause of et precious little sy that I could not discuss Marian

Devereux with any one; I even shrank froles in

my blood

She was always before me,-the charmed spirit of

youth, linked to every foot of the earth, every glealory of the winter

sunset All the good impulses I had ever stifled

were quickened to life by the thought of her A I heard

her voice, her girlish laughter, or saw her again coht

her fan with its golden butterflies I really knew so

little of her; I could associate her with no ho of the autuht hour at the organ

in the chapel, those stolen s'

I resented the pressure of the hour's affairs, and chafed

at the necessity for talking of ood friends ere there to help I wished to be

alone, to yield to the sweet ht h my mind

as to any possibility of connivance between her and

Pickering was as vague and fleeting as the shadow of a

sing on a sunny meadow